The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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